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Well-Balanced Dads is a family-friendly comedy about two dads navigating life after their kids leave the nest. Through partner acrobatics, audience interaction, and a lot of cringey Dad-isms, Dick and Dale take the audience on a camping adventure, complete with a beloved minivan, cheese sticks, and spooky ghost stories. This hilarious duo plays with levity while weaving in deeper themes like finding your inner child, hypermasculinity, and their own relationships with their fathers.

The Origin Story...

The Well-Balanced Dads are two characters co-developed and performed by Richie Schiraldi and Britt Anderson. The Dads were born from a cabaret act in Broken Planet Show, which toured for 2 years in Chicago and the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. In 2025, the longer show was developed in the Body Passages Residency by Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble and premiered at Being Made in Chicago by Physical Theater Festival.

Love the Dads but don't need an hourlong show?

They do cabarets and events, too!

Performance History

Upcoming:

2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

(limited run, details to be announced soon!)

Past:

Being Made in Chicago at Physical Theater Festival Chicago

Body Passages Showcase at Chicago Danztheater Ensemble

Full Length Show

Cabaret Act

Performance History

Sanctuary Cabaret at Aloft Circus Arts (Chicago, IL)

 

Lawyers for the Creative Arts Appreciation Event (Untitled Chicago)

Broken Planet Show (Newport Theater in Chicago, IL, Edinburgh Fringe 2024)

1 and Only Absolute Burlesque and Cabaret (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Dead Man's Carnival (Milwaukee, WI)

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